Graduate Student / Postdoc Seminar

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An invitation to scalar curvature

Speaker: Chao Li, Courant Institute, New York University

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Date: Friday, March 14, 2025, 1 p.m.

Synopsis:

Scalar curvature is a weak notion of curvature describe the average local bending of a Riemannian manifold. It naturally appears in geometry, topology, analysis and mathematical general relativity. I will describe some rigidity and flexibility phenomena related to scalar curvature, and recent advances in its investigation using Gromov style macroscopic geometry.